Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-12-20

Serious disturbances have occurred il
CALEDONIA requiring the assistance of troop
Ito preserve order. The order originated il
the closing of factories caused by depression
lin trade.
A Calcutta despatch says it is reported
lthat a force under Runbir Jung has been dis
|persed, with great loss of life.
A negro named John Porter, at Quitdam
!Ga., attempted to assault the wife of a wei
known planter Friday night. The woman
/ eirove the brute away and barred the door
Frustrated in his attempt, he set fire to tn,
house, and while watching for his prey t,
escape, the neighbors swooped down upoi
Bhim and subsequently hanged him.
A prize fight between Kilran and Smith /
supposed to be progressing at z. NJ, il
THE vicinity of Rouen.
Earl of Cairns was married Monday t.
Miss Olive Bevins.
The Bulgarian minister of war has deman
5ded credit in order to purchase a hundre,
: Thousand rifles.
Amos Clement of Warren, while hunting
flor wild steer, falling, shot himself by al
accident to the gun. He leaves widow an'
two children.
An official messenger says that there ha
Ebeen a conflict in Syria between the Bedoun
hand Druses, in which the latter surrendered
with three hundred wounded.
The post office at Milo Junction, Piscata
Equis county was discontinued on Monday.
A telegram from Belgrade reports that tn
Russian agitators are extremely active il
BServia The rifle factory at Steyer is turn
hing out 1000 repeating rifles week.
The New England Sbipbuilding Compan
schooner for Capt. William Quillen of Ne,
(ton four masted schooner for Capt. T. T
Anderson of New York, in a few days.
The following Maine postmasters wer
appointed Monday; Henry NJ Brewster
Curtis Corner; Joseph A. Sprague, Mort
sIsleboro.
S. S. Crandell, formerly lawyer and rea
estate broker in Troy, n. Y, on Monday
shot his wife. his mother-in-law, Mrs. s.
Stone. his step-daughter, Julia Bulklay, an
himself. a, their h,me in Bailsion Al
bare dead but the wife, and she is dying
They had controversy over money matters
gCrandalrs wife was the divorced wife of hi
8former legal associate. His wife had none,
and the quarrel was over its control.
Duster, the well-known Bangor trotter
lied, Sunday night, of pneumonia. He wa
owned by Frank Hight, and was valued a
three thousand dollars.
Gladstone has written letter declining t
Einterfere actively in the international arb
[tration movement
Caves county court house at Maysfleld
Ky. was fred by incendiaries, Sunday morn
|ing. All of the county records were lost an
no end of legal troubles will ensue.
A Fleming, Mo- dispatch says: Great e1
citement prevails here over mine disaste
of Saturday, which is much more seriou
than at first reported. Fifteen miners VIII
were in the shaft at the time of the explosion
now lie buried beneath hundreds of tons Q
coal and debris. A number of others ar
Imprisoned through the blocking of the shat
Hundreds are working to rescue them.
The Knox grand jury has risen and II
ports the following indictments John 4
Studley, Friendship, perjury, alleged /
have been committed in giving deposition i
case pending between himself and Lemu
Counce Of Warren; John Taylor, tramT